Nope

Nope follows Hollywood horse-wranglers Otis “OJ” Haywood Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald, or “Em” (Keke Palmer), who, after the violent death of ...

Beyond a point, the eye in the sky may as well be a hovering manifestation of lifelong pain, but rather than defeating it, Peele’s characters do what most in the modern American gig economy have been conditioned to with their every trait and experience. A hilariously bleak vision of the American dream, Jordan Peele’s Nope is a farcical love letter to Hollywood filmmaking. At times, Nope is a Spielbergian nightmare, not only for the occasional sci-fi conceptions that harken back to The Beard’s work, but because of the way Peele captures people at their most awestruck — albeit in a wackadoo context, where it becomes clear just how tongue-in-cheek his take on an alien invasion movie really is. If anything, it’s a testament to Peele’s craftsmanship, that he can both project an uneasiness (if not an all-out disdain) for the blockbuster as a concept — images, stories and spectacles as a money-first endeavor — while also making one of the most purely entertaining pieces of popcorn cinema this year. It’s a film that has its cake, eats it too, and absolutely deserves to, ramping up the tension with every subsequent scene (thanks in no small part to Michael Abels unsettling score). Peele’s sounds and silences (courtesy of designer Johnnie Burn) are where most of his chills are conjured, thanks to a rumbling aural landscape that demands a big-screen experience. Through fantasy, Peele seemingly course-corrects this deep-seated erasure of Blackness in Hollywood history: the Haywood siblings claim to be the descendants of this jockey, a Bahamian man, and their continued horse-training in an age of CGI is, in part, a means to keep the jockey’s and their father’s legacies alive — or at least, that’s how they sell it. Even the way Jupe retells his real-life horrors comes disguised in layers of pop culture commodification (the nature of his story is best discovered for yourself, but let’s just say Terry Notary is in the opening credits for a reason; if you know, you know). As much as Nope is about characters threatened by what could be a flying saucer, it’s also about what drives their responses to events like mysterious power failures, and an assortment of mundane objects raining down from above. Knowledge of his previous films might imply an invocation of genocide or slavery, America’s original sins, and while those readings are seldom far from the movie’s lips, it’s the melding of American history with monetary value — the most superficial reading of them all — that ends up the most important. It is, at once, a no-frills version of exactly what its trailers are selling — a film about objects falling from the sky, and characters catching glimpses of something sinister in the clouds — and yet, it’s entirely unlike its straightforward marketing, which provides hints of plot, but skillfully disguises its tone. Compared to Peele’s other work, Nope has a much deeper reading of the ways OJ, Em, and Jupe carry their burdens — often told through lingering, piercing close ups of each actor’s nuanced performance — and yet, the way their suffering factors into the story is shockingly cavalier (though not without reason).

Jordan Peele channels some Spielbergian riffs in Nope, but the bigger the scale, the fuzzier the picture.

While there’s no question that Jordan Peele is a tremendously talented filmmaker with some fascinating ideas and a true love of the genres he’s working in, this one stumbles like a horse making its way down a steep ravine. As for the film’s menace, which we won’t spoil here, let’s just say that we can tell when a movie isn’t working for us when we start to formulate our own ideas – while still watching the picture – of how the thing and its story could be better handled. These ideas and the characters who embody them – the forgotten child star trying to make a buck, the craftspeople of color who have delivered specific services behind the scenes for decades and are now trying to stay relevant – make Nope as fresh at the outset as Peele’s earlier efforts. Perea makes for an enjoyable enough nerd, his conspiracy-theorist bravado hiding a broken heart and retail-worker malaise, but Michael Wincott is largely wasted as a grizzled, growling, oddball cinematographer whose main function seems to be merely to provide the Haywoods with a camera. But not all is what it seems, as the Haywoods – with the help of an overeager electronics store technician named Angel (Brandon Perea) — learn more about the invader and what it’s there for. In his third film, Nope, Peele leans more fully into science fiction (with horror flavoring) and also aims for his most visually ambitious film yet – a “spectacle,” as all the early social media reactions seemed almost programmed to call it.

Written and directed by Jordan Peele, the science fiction horror comedy Nope stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun, following residents of a remote ...

Nope will be released in theaters on Friday, July 22, 2022 in the United States and Friday, August 12, 2022 in the UK. After the movie’s theatrical run, Nope will be available to purchase or rent on digital platforms, including iTunes, Amazon Prime, Vudu, and more. Nope will be the third mind-bending horror comedy from Jordan Peele, after the success of Get Out and Us, and fans can’t wait to see what the visionary director comes up with next.

While patriarch Otis Haywood Sr. (Keith David) always expected that his son Otis Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya) and daughter Emerald (Keke Palmer) would eventually take ...

But instead of trying to present itself as a wholly new spin on the kind of film it appears to be, Nope exceeds by going a bit meta as its heroes realize that they’re going to have to fight for their lives using, among other things, cameras. As characters, both OJ and Em are so firmly within Kaluuya and Palmer’s wheelhouses that they have a way of feeling like archetypical performances you’ve seen from them before, but it works within the context of Nope’s slightly amped-up reality. Even those willing to do business with the Haywoods, like former child actor turned local show cowboy Ricky Park (Steven Yeun), are hesitant to see them as more than the people who tend to animals — people so low on the call sheet that they’re almost invisible. While Nope — Peele’s third feature with Universal — definitely runs on the distressing, disorienting energy his projects have become known for, it also feels like the director’s first movie that’s actually about filmmaking as a thrilling and terrifying art form. Blessedly, racism (or some anthropomorphization of it) is not the frightening menace that eventually gets Nope’s characters uttering the movie’s title aloud. The Haywood siblings are still grieving in their respective ways as Nope opens on Otis Jr. (who goes by OJ) doing what he can to maintain Haywood’s Hollywood Horses and Emerald making it very clear that she’s ready to become a part of the showbiz in a non-equine capacity.

Peele and star Keke Palmer tell IndieWire that the "cinematic experience" of the film is hard to spoil.

“There’s something about the flying saucer that’s always scared me because it’s this minimal shape that kind of shouldn’t exist, shouldn’t be able to move,” he said. Horror [films] and the people who try to capture their nightmares and show it, I have to think and hope that it provides some catharsis for some people.” “Making a movie that involves the moviemaking process is just so inherently meta,” Peele told IndieWire. “I mean, when you’re on a set that has a set [within it], it gets very confusing. The classic “flying saucer” UFO shape. It’s like nothing else that you’ve seen of his before, but yet is just as thoughtful and has so much to say as the other things that you’ve seen. Such is the tension at the heart of “Nope.”)

Nope, reunites writer/director Jordan Peele with the stoically charismatic Daniel Kaluuya for an ambitious project that lives at the intersection of ...

But the more enmeshed in the danger, the less he seems to know how to disentangle himself. The transition between the varied perspectives does add levels to the overall world-building. He banks his family’s success on being able to capitalize on people’s lurid interest in the macabre. OJ’s been raised to embrace being in the background on movie sets. He’s shy and ill-suited to being in the spotlight. What follows starts out as a quietly menacing sci-fi morphs into an increasingly bizarre Western thrill ride in pursuit of proof of the impossible.

Nope, Jordan Peele's latest withering horror-satire about our modern obsession with attention and spectacle, lands in movie theaters - and at a fittingly ...

"There's a million storylines within this and metaphors that anyone in the audience can take differently," said Nope "This whole set was the actual authentic set that was used in the production," said Corfino. "The real villain is our addiction to attention and spectacle, and our inability to be able to actually react in real time," Palmer told AFP on the red carpet at the film's Hollywood premiere this week.

Jordan Peele is a filmmaker who knows how to conjure shuddering dread and fear-drenched discombobulation, so it's no surprise that Nope delivers.

There’s a reason Peele shot Nope with IMAX cameras, and it’s that dedication to the immersive experience which makes the film such a joy to witness. To the casual observer, it looks like a UFO. But to O.J. and Emerald, it looks like an Oprah moment, and their ticket to fame and fortune. But all these threads, and their scattershot consequences, end up feeling like misdirection compared to the real magic, which comes when Peele lets loose with his truly audacious atmospherics and literally out-of-this-world visualizations. Nope has a few clever twists and turns, plus dollops of below-the-line movie-industry flourishes, like when O.J. casually dons a Scorpion King sweatshirt with CREW emblazoned on the back. But those pesky power outages keep happening, and that UFO keeps menacing their house—even spewing out a torrential crimson rainstorm that may or may not be human fluids. But now their family business is hurting, and even though they’ve had to sell off a few of their horses, O.J.’s goal is to buy them all back.

Nope hits theaters on 19 August 2022. Reviewed by Siddhant Adlakha. A hilariously bleak vision of the American dream, Jordan Peele's Nope is a farcical love ...

Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Brandon Perea in 'Nope.' (CNN) Jordan Peele's "Get Out" marked such a thrilling directing debut ...

Yep. But to the extent "Get Out" offered the complete package in an Oprah-worthy way, this latest journey into the unknown is entertaining without rising to meet those over-the-moon expectations. Peele shrewdly draws from a variety of sources, including sci-fi movies of the 1950s at least in tone, relying on viewers to putty in gaps. Although the marketing has teased an alien-invasion plot, Peele again seeks to turn some of our expectations on their heads, playfully toying with conventions of the genre.

Nope is a pure white-knuckle form of spectacle and thrill, enveloping its audience in its sweeping cinematography.

With Nope, Peele is on the verge of joining a small and exclusive club of directors whose own names, rather than that of decades-old characters, are enough to pack a theater. Though Nope effectively evokes and even revives the kind of big, unfettered IP blockbuster we’ve all been missing, it doesn’t do so without a few rough edges, the primary one being that of editing. As Disney and other studios pivots towards streaming vehicles and middling blockbuster fare and the world continues to wrestle with a pandemic that just won’t stop, theaters face a question of life or death. It’s not a big reveal, if you’ve seen the trailers, to say the bad miracle that haunts the Haywoods takes the form of an unidentified flying object. Instead of creating something wholly novel, Peele creates his most technically ambitious film yet by following in the treads of and paying homage to classic blockbusters. Rather than being a this-film-meets-that-film-with-a-twist-of-this-other-thing, Get Out was the singular kind of of-the-moment film that created its own derivatives.

Daniel Kaluuya said he broke down laughing when he learned that Jordan Peele was titling his new horror movie Nope.

'So the first time I met him I was scatting' 'The first time I met him, there was sketch they were just trying out and it was like us scatting like doing a jazz sketch,' Daniel said. They're like nope, nope and I was like ''yeah'' They're like nope, nope and I was like ''yeah''.' 'It's the win rate of 'Money Ball,' Daniel said of the name. 'For whatever reason, he was developing it, and I was like what's it called,' Daniel said while on the NBC talk show.

In his third film, “Nope,” Peele has a much bigger canvas to paint on. The result is his most ambitious movie, but also his messiest.

Peele terrifyingly replays the incident for us, and it’s a hell of a scene, but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the actual story being told here. It’s a fascinating mess of a movie, almost never predictable in its messy nature, but devoid of the discipline needed to truly grab our attention. Then “Us” came and I dug most of it (safe for the ending). Both movies showcased a filmmaker with a clearcut voice who knew how to frame his shots for maximal suspenseful effect.

Spaghetti Western, alien-invasion thriller, trauma allegory, ecological parable, treatise on the pernicious power of filmed entertainment over the last ...

The siblings’ final encounter with the alien, an elaborate if somewhat confusingly laid-out plan to lure out and film the invader, has moments of fist-pumping exhilaration, but this creature feature ends on an almost King Kong-like note of sympathy for its creature. After his death, the two very different Haywood siblings—OJ guarded and taciturn, Em a chatty, weed-vaping live wire with grand entrepreneurial schemes—draw closer, both in their grief for their dad and in their fear for the future of the ranch in an era when equine talent has been supplanted by CGI. On the upside, that means that Nope never feels long or belabored—it moves like a house on fire—but its relative compactness also means that as this big, bold, sometimes brutal movie careens to a cinematically thrilling if narratively puzzling conclusion, some of the most important questions the script itself raises in the idea-dense first half remain unanswered. Otis “OJ” Haywood, Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya) and his younger sister Emerald, or Em (Keke Palmer), live on a ranch in the remote town of Agua Dulce. Their family business, Haywood’s Hollywood Horses, has supplied and wrangled horses for the movie industry quite literally since the dawn of the medium. Peele’s script tries to pack the thematic ambition of a novel (or, if I dare say this in reference to such a self-avowedly movie-obsessed movie, a season-long arc of television) into a running time of just over two hours. The writer-director’s third feature film, his biggest and most expensive yet by an order of magnitude, is a great churning engine of a movie that mashes up genres, images, and ideas at an industrial scale.

Jordan Peele is back with another provocative horror film. But many might be better off saying “nope” to the film itself.

And the UFO that seems to be homesteading in the area? Why, it might just be the key to unlock that opportunity. His father was the businessman, the showman. For decades, he’d supplied studios with steeds for their movies and television shows But even with all of Otis’ skill and savvy, the Haywood ranch’s galloping business had slowed to a slow saunter in recent years. One minute he was prepping for a big motion picture job, the next he was slumped over in the saddle, bleeding from the head, a piece of freak debris embedded in his skull. In fact, Otis literally died in the saddle, aboard one of his favorite horses.

Wondering how to watch Nope? We have all of the details on the latest Jordan Peele movie, from showtimes to streaming info.

To find when and where you can watch the film, check the local showtime listings at the links below: If you want to watch Peele’s previous two films ahead of Nope, you have a couple of options. The shroud of mystery surrounding Jordan Peele’s next horror movie is about to be lifted.

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Judas and the Black Messiah: This crime drama feature is a biopic of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party of the late 1960s. The crux of the story is not the flying object or what they do. And the siblings’ approach to the presence of aliens is also different from what we are used to seeing in sci-fi movies like these. The fact that random objects are falling from the sky and a flying saucer-like object destroying everything in its way, is a straightforward hint at an alien presence. There’s also a little undertone of dark humor as we see in some scenes and dialogues. Since its inception, Nope has fetched a lot of attention and become a highly anticipated horror movie with Peele’s popular narrative style and concept.

With Get Out, Jordan Peele established himself as an exciting director whose movies are going to demand audiences' attention. Such is the case with Nope, ...

Michael Balderston is a DC-based entertainment and assistant managing editor for What to Watch, who has previously written about the TV and movies with TV Technology, Awards Circuit and regional publications. However, the timing of when Nope is going to launch on Peacock is still up in the air. Nope, as a Universal Pictures movie, is going to be available to stream on Peacock first, available exclusively to Peacock Premium subscribers. If Nope follows that timeline, it may arrive on Peacock right around Labor Day weekend in the US (September 2-5). With Nope having an exclusive run in movie theaters, it won’t be coming to digital or streaming platforms for a little bit. Offered by many theater chains in the US and UK, these special deals give moviegoers either discounted, free or a set number of movie tickets (for a flat monthly rate) each month, as well as deals on concessions and more.

Jordan Peele may want viewers to see his latest on the big screen, but the film will still be available to watch online very soon.

If it is a relative box office disappointment like Universal's similarly epic The Northman, it could follow that film and get a 45-day cinematic window. These films are set to come to the streamer within four months of their release, which means that it might not be streaming until November 2022. The second is that some big releases have waited longer to come to streaming than 45 days. The first is that the film has different cinematic release dates in different countries. Which category Nope is in is not quite clear. However, they said at the same time that their big summer blockbusters would not follow it.

July 21, 2022 9:31 PDT - By Sam Mendelsohn - Box Office News. As the summer winds down, the stream of major franchise films has dried up, but there are ...

Universal is doubling down with Nope, which has a $68 million budget compared to $4.5 million on Get Out and $20 million on Us. The low budgets meant Peele’s earlier films were hugely profitable, while the significantly larger budget on Nope means the margins are bound to be much lower, though it is still likely to make its money back assuming it doesn’t fall considerably short of Peele’s earlier grosses. While both Get Out and Us were well received by critics (98% on Rotten Tomatoes for Get Out, which also got Oscar noms for best director and picture and won for original screenplay, and 93% on RT for Us), audiences took to Get Out, which received an A- CinemaScore, but not to Us, which got a B CinemaScore. This was reflected in the box office, with Get Out having an exceptional multiplier of 5.27 after its strong $33.7 million opening. Universal is doubling down with Nope, which has a $68 million budget compared to $4.5 million on Get Out and $20 million on Us. The low budgets meant Peele’s earlier films were hugely profitable, while the significantly larger budget on Nope means the margins are bound to be much lower, though it is still likely to make its money back assuming it doesn’t fall considerably short of Peele’s earlier grosses. While both Get Out and Us were well received by critics (98% on Rotten Tomatoes for Get Out, which also got Oscar noms for best director and picture and won for original screenplay, and 93% on RT for Us), audiences took to Get Out, which received an A- CinemaScore, but not to Us, which got a B CinemaScore. This was reflected in the box office, with Get Out having an exceptional multiplier of 5.27 after its strong $33.7 million opening. The goodwill from Get Out led to Us nabbing one of the biggest openings ever for an original film with $71.1 million, but it ended up with a multiplier of just 2.46, finishing practically on par with Get Out despite more than doubling its opening. The goodwill from Get Out led to Us nabbing one of the biggest openings ever for an original film with $71.1 million, but it ended up with a multiplier of just 2.46, finishing practically on par with Get Out despite more than doubling its opening.

It's gutsy to start a movie with a verse from Nahum, which is surely one of the Bible's least-quoted books. But Jordan Peele likes a challenge.

The name of the TMZ reporter who shows up on a motorcycle — with a mirrored helmet, no less — is listed in the film’s credits as “Ryder Muybridge,” which is obviously a reference to the man who shot the film starring Alistair Haywood and who has gone down in history with all the credit. Yet it might help to explain why OJ is the first to realize that the saucer isn’t a saucer at all, at least not like the kind they’re used to seeing in the movies. It’s a movie with a thousand references to the past. When midway through the film, the saucer rains guts and blood down on the ranch house, you have to think of Nahum’s words: “I will cast abominable filth upon you.” The first night, as OJ dodges the saucer, a nearby coworker in the store, munching chips and hanging out, even breathlessly asks, “What happened to OJ?” As if he’s a character on a show, and not a real guy whose life is in danger. But you can’t really opt out of a spectacle culture — it’s around you, and whether or not you want to participate, it tends to suck you in anyhow. Jupe’s development of a “family show” at Jupiter’s Claim is just another harnessing of spectacle — in this case, the flying saucer — to get paying customers to his amusement park. Watching and being watched is everywhere in Nope. When OJ and Emerald first come to believe there’s a saucer in the sky, they head straight for the electronics store to get surveillance cameras, which Angel installs on their property. In any case, the Haywood ranch is just up the road from Jupiter’s Claim, and OJ’s been selling horses to owner Ricky “Jupe” Park (Steven Yeun) to keep the ranch afloat. Nope is centrally about how our experiences of reality have been almost entirely colonized by screens and cameras and entertainment’s portrayals of what it calls reality, to the point that we can barely conceive of experiencing reality directly, with honesty and without any kind of manipulation. Just before this verse, Nahum describes Nineveh as a lion’s den, the “city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims,” a place with “galloping horses and jolting chariots,” full of bodies of the dead. TV and movies over the past several decades have coaxed us to expect explanations and puzzle boxes in our entertainment, and to be annoyed when creators refuse to reveal the trick at the end of the show.

With his third film, Peele has an original screenplay Oscar to his name (for his debut “Get Out”), while Tarantino has been nominated five times and won twice ( ...

One more caveat for home viewing: Failure to reach that $50 million consensus means Universal has the ability, per its agreement with top circuits, to make “Nope” available for PVOD after its third weekend. If so, it will join “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Elvis” as the rare films that inspire audience interaction that can only be experienced in theaters. The original “Nope” would be an impossible production if it were packaged with almost anyone but Peele. That’s why the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” comp bears emphasis. The consensus preopening projection for “Nope” is $50 million, about 25 percent less than “Us” — but that shouldn’t be perceived as a disappointment. With that take, it would beat Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which opened to $41 million in July 2019 (it was #2 behind the second weekend of the live-action “The Lion King.”)

Nope is hitting theaters -- and only theaters -- Friday, but its streaming release date isn't confirmed. Here's everything to know about when it could be.

So if you're already a premium subscriber to Peacock, then you'll be able to stream it just like anything else on the service. - Universal's other big summer movies don't provide much precedent to go on: Jurassic World Dominion and Minions: The Rise of Gru are the two biggest blockbusters the company has distributed this summer (and so far this year), but neither have confirmed streaming release dates on Peacock yet. Since Nope is already set be exclusively in theaters at first, that same-day streaming release isn't in the cards. Nope is expected to stream on Peacock first. If the movie waits until its 120th day of release, it'll be on Peacock on Nov. 18. But this year, as COVID-19 restrictions have eased and audiences have returned to cinemas, the practice has nearly vanished -- especially for summer flicks with blockbuster ambitions.

A new movie from Jordan Peele. That's really all you have to say to get butts in seats. The 43-year-old filmmaker delivered one of the most talked-about and ...

After all, rather than creating the illusion of a ranch why not add a little extra authenticity and film at one for real? Since then, trailers and so forth have made it one of the most eagerly anticipated films of 2022. Dealing with heavy and important topics in an entertaining and accessible way, the film was a celebrated box office triumph.

While Jordan Peele's new sci-fi horror movie, starring Daniel Kaluuya, has loads of ideas and builds up considerable suspense and dread, it eventually ...

- Opinion: The Senate’s Semiconductor Spending Trick You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service. Mr. Peele has loads of ideas and builds up considerable suspense and dread, but he fails to tie everything together with a resounding final act.

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